![Demonstrative: I saw that. He went
there.
Complementizer: I saw that [he went
there].
For example:
That (Demonstrative)
That (Complimentizer)](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/grammaticalizing-241031124212-60d5d2d9/85/Exploring-Grammaticalization-How-Words-Evolve-into-Grammar-Elements-and-Shape-Language-Structures-Across-Time-Communication-and-Meaning-20-320.jpg)
Exploring Grammaticalization: How Words Evolve into Grammar Elements and Shape Language Structures Across Time, Communication, and Meaning
- 2. Grammaticalizing or Grammaticalization Lesson II: Presented by: Vence Jucent A. Dalaguit MAJ 11
- 3. Objectives: At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to: Discuss what is grammaticalization, and Identify the concept and types or processes of grammaticalization.
- 4. What is Grammaticalizing/Grammaticalizatio n? French Linguist Antoine Meillet introduced the concept of grammaticalization in his 1912 study “L’evolution des grammaticales.”
- 5. In the domain of historical linguistics and discourse analysis, grammaticalization emerges as a notable phenomenon marked by semantic change.
- 6. This process involves two primary aspects: (a) the transformation of lexical item into one serving a grammatical function, and (b) the evolution of a grammatical item to acquire a new grammatical function.
- 7. Grammaticalization is described as the process by which grammar is created (Croft,2006) or the study of this process. For example, Subject-Verb Agreement: S-Singular V-Plural V-Singular S-Plural
- 8. It is the language process change by which words representing objects and actions for example nouns and verbs become grammatical markers such as affixes, preposition etc. which results in the creation of funtion words through a process other than deriving them from existing bound and inflectional constructions derive them from content words.
- 9. Old English, willan- to want, to wish Modern English, will- intention, futurity Example:
- 10. Grammaticalization involves reduction and increased dependency. Reduction also known us phonetic erosion or phonological reduction is an expression in linguistics that loses phonetic substance if it undergoes grammaticalization.
- 11. let us, as in “let us eat” reduced to let’s, as in “let’s you and me fight”. Example:
- 12. The Cline Concept Instead of abrupt shifts between categories, language forms undergo series small, similar transitions. In simpler terms, a cline is a pattern we observe in languages worldwide.
- 13. Noun to Preposition: -Original noun: top -Transitional Stage: on the top of -Final Stage: on Example 1:
- 14. Noun to Adjective: -Original noun: friend -Transitional Stage: friendly -Final Stage: kind Example 2:
- 16. There are 4 types of grammaticalization, Variety Morphological Reduction Semantic Bleaching Phonetic Erosion Obligatori- fication
- 17. What is Semantic Bleaching? Semantic bleaching or desemanticization, has been seen as a characteristic of grammaticalization. It can be described as the loss of all grammaticalization, bleaching refer to the lost of all (or more) lexical content of an entity while only its grammatical
- 18. For example: thing ---- shit thing- assembly or council anything shit- diarrhea thing/stuff ● Don’t touch my things./ Don’t touch my shit. ● I’ve got a lot of things to take care of this weekend./ I’ve got a lot of shits to take care
- 19. What is Morphological Reduction? Once a linguistic expression has changed from lexical to a grammatical meaning (bleaching), it is likely to lose morphological and syntactic elements that were characteristics of its initial category, but which are not relevant to the grammatical function called decategorialization or morphological reduction.
- 20. Demonstrative: I saw that. He went there. Complementizer: I saw that [he went there]. For example: That (Demonstrative) That (Complimentizer)
- 21. What is Phonetic Erosion? Phonetic erosion (also called phonological attrition or phonological reduction), is the process that is often linked to grammaticalization. It implies that a linguistic expression loses phonetic substance when it has undergone grammaticalization.
- 22. Going to --- gonna (or even I am going to --- I’m gonna --- Imma) Because --- coz For example:
- 23. What is Obligatorification? Obligatorification is when content word is used in a specific context in a specific way, it may become more grammatical over time.
- 24. “The man is here.” For example: “The” must be used to indicate that we are referring to a specific, known man.